Optimization

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Optimization or optimality may refer to:

Relating to improving performance:

• Optimization (mathematics), the process of finding function extrema to solve problems
• Program optimization, improving a system to reduce runtime, bandwidth, memory requirements, or other property of a system; in particular:
  • Compiler optimization, improving the performance or efficiency of compiled code
• Optimization (Infrastructure & Application Platform), in IT, a process for assessing an organization's IT infrastructure and application platform across capabilities
• Search engine optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings
• Image search optimization, in internet marketing, methodologies aimed at improving the ranking of an image in image search engine listings
• Process optimization, in business and engineering, methodologies for improving the efficiency of a production process
• Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept
• Optimality theory, in linguistics, a model proposing that observed forms of language arise from the interaction of conflicting constraints
• Pareto efficiency, or Pareto optimality, a concept used in economics, game theory, engineering and the social sciences
• Optimality, in economics; see utility and economic efficiency

Optimum may refer to:

• Optimum Releasing, a film and DVD distribution company based in the UK
• Optimum TV, the brand name of a suite of digital media services offered by Cablevision Systems Corporation
• Optimum PR, a division of Cossette, Inc., a public relations organization

See also

• Maximization
• Management science
• Operations research
• Formal science

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